tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5257036732683611349.post1031755116734416326..comments2024-03-28T06:47:24.428-04:00Comments on As the Crowe Flies (and Reads!): Norwegian Wood Readalong: Part DeuxAs the Crowe Flies and Readshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110661562901480120noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5257036732683611349.post-1781820093391613002012-01-22T19:17:13.221-05:002012-01-22T19:17:13.221-05:00Norwegian Wood Readalongers: Sorry for no comments...Norwegian Wood Readalongers: Sorry for no comments from me this week. I was in New Orleans with only a phone for internet access and I just couldn't do it. Not when there were beignets to be eaten and sazeracs to be drunk.<br /><br />Sim, the way you can see all of the comments is to follow all of the blogs in this link on Reading Rambo (the host site): http://reading-rambo.blogspot.com/2011/12/readalong-poll-results.html<br /><br />If there's a simpler way to do it, I don't know what it is. But now I've subscribed so that all posts in the readalong challenge will show up in my Blogger thingy. Yeah, I like to use the techinical terms like that.As the Crowe Flies and Readshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12110661562901480120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5257036732683611349.post-50593356982546236312012-01-19T02:07:07.519-05:002012-01-19T02:07:07.519-05:00You seem soooo reasonable so please HELP! I found ...You seem soooo reasonable so please HELP! I found your blog in the usual way - stalking, I guess - and was instantly intrigued by the whole Norwegian Wood thing.<br />Mostly by the fact that the book has been made into a movie which might actually play in cities other than NYC one of these days! I was particularly intrigued because my blog is all about movies based on books and I didn't know about this one. YUCK. Total humiliation. Anyway, what I need HELP with is this whole reading challenge thing. What is it? And where are the comments? I clicked on the rambo reads link and couldn't find it. Okay, that's my rambling post and by the way, I love your blog and your life. I read your About You section aloud to my husband; how I would love to work at an indie book store. SIGH!<br />Thanks, Sim at Chapter1-Take1Sim Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07069681571808073102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5257036732683611349.post-24093611992432859862012-01-18T16:25:03.175-05:002012-01-18T16:25:03.175-05:00Alice, ours is a forbidden love.Alice, ours is a forbidden love.Megshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10967657695336270359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5257036732683611349.post-46813483177030077272012-01-18T12:34:02.330-05:002012-01-18T12:34:02.330-05:00"Maybe the erotic parts haven't happened ..."Maybe the erotic parts haven't happened yet. This thought terrifies me."<br /><br />Megs, I love you. Yeah, I said it. DEAL WITH IT.Reading Rambohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614467198216577755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5257036732683611349.post-47972171940195711662012-01-18T00:19:46.261-05:002012-01-18T00:19:46.261-05:00Yes Murakami - more Midori! These last 2 chapters...Yes Murakami - more Midori! These last 2 chapters took forever to get through because I love vivacious characters like Midori. Now that Toru's back to the "real world", we should see more of her. Hopefully. If Nakao hasn't jeopardized his relationships with her "don't forget me, like, ever" request.Etudesquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13106938419901219249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5257036732683611349.post-66026527078356622212012-01-17T21:15:19.976-05:002012-01-17T21:15:19.976-05:00You're so right...these descriptions are not e...You're so right...these descriptions are not erotic. It's like a fourth-grader TRYING to be erotic. Although the part where Reiko describes her encounter with the piano student was a little more on the steamy side.<br /><br />Here's a thought: Maybe the erotic parts haven't happened yet. This thought terrifies me.Megshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10967657695336270359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5257036732683611349.post-91804454077320917752012-01-17T20:22:57.742-05:002012-01-17T20:22:57.742-05:00I'm side-eyeing the LA Times Book Review for t...I'm side-eyeing the LA Times Book Review for that back cover blurb, too. Unless their definition of erotic consists of having random, extremely strange and uncomfortable sex scenes thrown in every once in a while. <br /><br />I didn't love Midori right off the bat, but now I'm really looking forward to seeing her again!Raynahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536910555459674118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5257036732683611349.post-69185257387361156952012-01-17T16:24:45.304-05:002012-01-17T16:24:45.304-05:00More Midori please is, I'm sure, echoed by eve...More Midori please is, I'm sure, echoed by everyone else! Love. Her. I do sort of kind of love the whole thing though...<br /><br />Oh yeah, and I have totally had Norwegian Wood stuck in my head for this whole month! And I've also listened to it more than in the rest of my life as well... Damn that's a good song!Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5257036732683611349.post-62572783626846362732012-01-17T12:09:21.282-05:002012-01-17T12:09:21.282-05:00LOLz on the getting rid of semen quote. I snicker...LOLz on the getting rid of semen quote. I snickered to myself when I read that.<br /><br />I didn't personally find the reading tedious, but I think I can understand how you may have felt that way. But I don't think you're missing anything. The text is fairly straightforward for the most part.<br /><br />The quote where Reiko talks to Toru about using himself up may have to do with nature of sleeping with people you don't care about. I think she's saying that it's natural for us to have an emotional bond with the people with whom we sleep, so to have meaningless sex is like exerting emotional energy into nothingness. And if your emotional life is got all this emptiness at an age in which we really FIND ourselves, then you've got a recipe for becoming a damaged person.<br /><br />But if it's not working for you then that's totally okay (I'm okay, you're okay, let's hug.). There's a bunch of Midori in the next chapters and we'll see if that perks you up!Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02748178730844113883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5257036732683611349.post-90942583687555414982012-01-17T10:36:41.159-05:002012-01-17T10:36:41.159-05:00Oh huzzah! Because I am so not into this book. Hos...Oh huzzah! Because I am so not into this book. Hosting the readalong is the one thing keeping me going, because there are OTHER BOOKS that I know I would enjoy infinitely more. But I guess it's good to have at least SOME Murakami under your belt, right?<br /><br />And YES I've had Norwegian Wood stuck in my head all the time. Blasted book.<br /><br />"'If he wanted to play with my breasts or vagina, I didn't mind at all, or if he had semen he wanted to get rid of, I didn't helping with that, either.' Erotic? I don't think so."<br /><br />Ahahahaha There's definitely a translation issue there. Or an issue with Murakami not writing eroticism well. One of those.Reading Rambohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614467198216577755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5257036732683611349.post-77718817224048704712012-01-17T09:29:49.669-05:002012-01-17T09:29:49.669-05:00I'm pretty sure I read something about Murakam...I'm pretty sure I read something about Murakami either winning or being a finalist for the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award...several times. You're not alone in questioning the "erotic" content (ew - anyone who actually says that, I would hasten to guess, is going to have a hard time having any "erotic content" in their real life). You're also not alone in not getting Murakami. But good for you for trying!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17763269201273012957noreply@blogger.com